Posted on 11/18/2010 10:02:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The House will vote Thursday on whether or not to give the unemployed three more months to file for extended jobless benefits.
The legislation would extend the deadline to file for federal unemployment benefits to Feb. 28, sparing 4 million people from falling off the rolls. The deadline is now Nov. 30.
"Terminating this emergency unemployment assistance will not only devastate families, but it also will hurt the entire economy by depressing consumer confidence and demand," said Rep. Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat., the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
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KILL THE BILL
Hell!....Lets all just quit work and collect unemployment forever!...Oh!...wait!....
Why dont they just get it over with and extend it til the day the recipient dies?
Someone tell me why I bother to keep working.
“Unemployment benefits extension introduced in House”
A better headline would have been: “Unemployment extension introduced in House”, because that’s what it will do.
If you pay someone to not work, guess what?
Or the more creative ones will work on the side and still collect unemployment.
How come none of our enterprising reporters have done an in-depth investigation of this?
I’m in the employment business and I talk to these people every day. We call them and tell them about job openings, which they often refuse. They say: “Why should I take a job for $12/hour when I’m getting $10/hour on unemployment?” Well...umm...good question. And many of them have another job - painting, landscaping, waiting tables - getting paid cash under the table. They won’t even take a $15/hour job. Don’t worry about benefits, the gov’t has them covered. And food stamps, and help with their heating bills, and on and on.
I’ve worked for several employment agencies and I can tell you that recruiters don’t report people who turn down job interviews. It would required mounds of paperwork, and most recruiters just don’t have the time. Even if they wanted to they wouldn’t know how. Agencies should have a hotline number to call - how bout 1-800-FREELOADER.
If we cut off unemployment benefits, many of these people will find a job. Guaranteed. If it’s 52 weeks unemployment they’ll find a job week 53. If it’s 99 weeks unemployment they’ll find a job week 100. Sorry but our country just can’t afford to spend three hundred BILLION dollars and have nothing to show for it. That’s about a thousand bucks for every person in the country. So my family ponies up five grand. So does yours.
I know there are people who legitimately need help. But it’s time to end the free rides. We can’t afford it any more.
It has long since ceased being an emergency, it is now a form of welfare. Demos bet that will get them back in power.
Excellent post.
Too many Americans have a needle in their arm called ‘the Government’.
The union president of whatever union that represents the workers at the Grain Processing Corp. plant in Muscatine Iowa has stated they will probably settle after their unemployment runs out.
They have made no effort towards settling for over six months.
So this is an effort to extend it beyond the 99 weeks? or extend it so those who didn’t get in on the “deal” can now claim 99 weeks? Article is unclear.
In any event, as a contractor, I know in Illinois that you are exactly right. Many many contractors are sitting at home right now collecting benefits, even though there are jobs out there. Those jobs pay below their union pay scale of $30-38 an hour, so they collect unemployment. They don’t want to take the job, because it will end their unemployment, and since construction jobs are short term, many feel they will be laid off before they will be vested again to collect, so they sit at home and drink beer from a can and watch TV, doing the odd side jobs for cash.
I’m not saying there is a shortage in the workforce where employers cannot find people to hire, some will work, but many will not because its financially better to stay at home.
I don’t fault them really, if you have a family to support do you go work for $200 bucks a week or stay home for 3x that amount? I fault the system, not those who have mouths to feed.
Frankly, I’m not sure what I would do if put into that position. I decided some time ago that I would never again be at the mercy of someone else, so we started our own business, and I hope I never have to go back to being dependent on either the whim of supervisor, or a gub’mint handout.
People do whatever they can to survive, my wife is Hungarian, and can tell you stories about growing up in Hungary after the soviets rolled in. All sense of righteousness goes out the window when you have hungry babies.
I don’t think the job situation will get better with the sociolists in charge, so I really don’t know how I would tackle the problem. Easy for me to be a hardass and say ‘screw em all’ while at the same time, I know that government in and of itself has caused this massive unemployment through regulation, union pandering, high taxes, and generally making our factories and businesses in general, non-competitive in the global marketplace.
So its hard for me to turn a blind eye to the people who are suffering because the dipshits in Washington have created a cesspool of misery.
But at the same time, we are creating another welfare generation. I think some bitter pills are coming soon, and we are just going to have to take the whole bottle of medicine at once, and I fear (or welcome, I’m not sure) that a new civil war is brewing. Our current path is unsustainable in any event.
“I know there are people who legitimately need help. But it’s time to end the free rides. We can’t afford it any more.”
This is true, and it should be a major talking point for the Republicans. Get out there and say “here’s the problem, we don’t have enough money. Now, we can either afford to help out Americans who have paid into the system during this crunch, or we can pay for the college of illegal aliens, and social programs for illegal aliens, but we cant’ do both, so... you guys tell us what you want...”
I bet immigration reform would end, we would seal the borders, and we can hire a million people to build the damn wall and patrol it.
I am sure they will pass this so it will be the evil, hate mongering Republicans that get blamed for ending unemployment.
Like any other “insurance” unemployment “insurance” should have set premiums and set benefits.
If you have $25,000 in life insurance, Congress should not pass a law saying you get $32,000.
If you have a million dollar cap on your health insurance policy, Congress should not pass a law doubling it.
Treat UI like any other insurance. Pay the benefits to the legitimate claims; then stop.
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